Examine the domain controllers. Active Directory uses Kerberos to authenticate communication on the domain. Therefore, your AD server must accept this authentication type as well.

Earlier this week I saw a situation in which someone with a small, single-domain controller network performed a restoration of their domain controller. This restoration effectively reverted the ...

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A Domain Controller, on the other hand, is a server that hosts an Active directory and manages network authentication. Essentially, AD is the system, and the DC is the server that runs it, making ...

Before making the move from NT to Windows Server 2003, it's important to understand some key differences between Active Directory and the NT 4 domain model as it pertains to server roles.

Domain Controllers and Disaster Recovery. It's really easier than you think. By Don Jones; ... promote it to be a domain controller, and it’ll get the AD database from its fellows.

I have just been assigned the task of installing the Domain Controller for our internal network and I am curious about what are the best practices when partition for a domain controller. In my ...

Domain controllers are responsible for authenticating users, managing Group Policy and maintaining the AD database, making them uniquely powerful targets. Microsoft's internal data shows that more ...

It’s possible to install AD Connect on domain controllers, and that’s what we had done with our initial, on-prem AD Connect server, Server A.

Domain controllers hosting Active Directory Domain Services use a type of replication to synchronize changes. An experienced attacker can mimic the legitimate replication activity of a domain ...